Let's give Mat Latos a little love. Not alot but he deserves a dose of
love from us for a superb pitching performance as a Red. Good for him.
A few more outings similiar to tonights and we'll all be happy.
For one night Mat you have earned the title ace. Now joining Cueto & Company
and get the job done for the year.

Lotsa love here for Latos. Cuetos is the ace, though. Tonight and every night.

I'd imagine that he put a ton of pressure on himself coming over in exchange for FOUR players including the team's former ace and top prospects.

Latos has talent and seems to be settling in to his new environment and not getting too rattled by playing in a park that you could probably fit two of inside Petco and still have room leftover.

"It's an amazing feeling to finally do something good after the trade," Latos said.

yeah, i'd say he was probably feeling it. hopefully he feels some weight off his shoulders now and he can start to breathe. his home numbers have been good, and aside from some bullheadedness, he's shown to have great stuff so far... keep trusting in hanigan, execute execute execute, and he'll be there at the end.

He did pitch one heck of a game. Thats the guy we traded for. Hopefully this get him going, i do think he has been trying a little to hard to prove his worth. Tonight I though he looked like the guy form a couple years ago in san Diego.

I saw something different. He was not pouncing around the mound like a mad bull in a bull fight like he has so far. He seemed calm cool and collected. Confident is another word I would use to describe him last night. Keep it up Latos.

Ghost

Not only a great game by Latos, but I have really liked what I've seen from Bruce lately. He appears to have learned from watching Votto, and has begun to take the outside pitch to left field. If he continues this approach to at the plate... wow what could come about for the Reds could be something to remember.

That slider was really breaking down hard. Nobody can hit that when it's working. Would love to see that kind of performance more often than not.

He started off terrible. Walking Aoki and then Morgan laid down a perfect bunt. I thought, oh no here we go again. That set the tone. He kept the ball down and K'd Braun and it seemed to amp him up. Hanigan did a great job of handling him as usual. You can see a lot more of how that works when you are sitting in sections like 426. About the best view of everything.

Just for accuracy's sake, Latos fanned Braun in that first at-bat (and also the third at-bat) with high hard stuff.

I guess from the vantage point upstairs in 426 it would be difficult to tell. Every pitch would seem to be "down" so to speak.

Only in Braun's last at-bat did Latos work him over with sliders and Braun looked just lost flailing away at the third strike.

It was a masterful performance.